Infographic: Sitting all day at work is killing us
How your desk job is making you sick and costing employers $200 billion dollars every year.
Typing at your computer, mouse scrolling, and emptying your inbox aren’t burning up nearly enough calories.
“In the 1960s, nearly half of all jobs required physical activity. Today, less than 20 percent do. Day-to-day, you may not see the toll of this. But over lifetimes and large amounts of health data, the effects are pretty staggering,” writes Matt Silverman on Mashable.com.
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